The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-07

rational that he refused to take her into
custody.
A LETTER recently received from the wife
of Justice Woods, of the United States Su-
preme Court, who is spending the winter in
Southern California on account of ill health.
states the Justice is better and has gained
some flesh.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM II. EMORY has been
ordered to command the Thetis. one of the
Greedy relief vessels. which has been re-
fitted at the Brooklyn navy yard and will
be attached to the Pacific squadron. The
Thetis is to be stationed in Alaskan waters
TO act in conjunction with the Pinta, which
is not regarded as entirely safe in open sea
cruises.
THE Peter Cooper Monument Committee
has authorized the executive committee to
arrange for the casting and erection. The
monument will be cast in bronze in this
country and will be the largest on Manhat-
tan island. 1t will cost between SIS. ZOO and
$4,000
WILLIAM A. HEARD, of Sandwich. n.
H., has been appointed national bank
examiner for the States of Maine and New
Hampshire.
P. HENRY DRUGo, grand sachem of Tam
many Hall, has resigned. County Clerk
James A. Flack was elected to succeed
him.
DANIEL F. BEATTY, ex-mayor Of Washing
ton, N. j., was arrested recently charged
with improper and illegal use of the mails.
He was at one time one of the most extern
sive manufacturers of organs and pianos in
tho country. His factory was burned in
1854 and his failure followed. The COM
plant was preferred by woman who sent
him money for an organ but did not get it.
The schedule in the assignment of the
firm of F. NJ. Foster & Co., upholsterers.
New York, show liabilities of SgS2, GOO; con-
tingent, SSS,964; nominal assets, 1914, 126
and actual assets, So, 1856
MR.. PowDERLY in recent letter strongly
denounced the socialists, and told them that
men who for 1854 days in the year advocate
the use of the dirk and bullet and who on
the 85th day walk up to the polls and vote
for the continuance of the system which
they denounce could not be encouraged by
the Knights of Labor.
The New York World states on the very
best Of authority that Rev. DR.. McGlynn is
under indefinite suspension, both as rector
and priest.
CHARLES II. RAYMOND, a dealer in sup
plies, New York, has assigned His prefer
ences amounted to sos, 1OO
THE American Society of Naturalists be-
gan its fifth annual meeting in Philadelphia
on the 18th. A paper was read by the
President, G. K. Gilbert, of the United
States Coast Survey. It was devoted to a
consideration of the methods for finding the
equations for determining rain and thunder
storms, etc. Prof. F. b. Wilson, professor
of biology at Bryn Mawr, addressed the so
ciety upon the subject of molds and their
relation to bacteria.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY Posi- made a motion
before Judge Barrett at New York recently
to restrain the Globe Mutual Benefit AssO-
ton, an insurance cooperative society,
from insuring the lives of infants in arms,
arguing that they could not become MEM
bers of the association and take part in the
elections and other business connected with
ii, as provided by the statute. The court
gave counsel q week to file briefs.
HARVARD COLLEGE receives some 500, 600
from the will of John Q. A. Williams The
estate is left in trust, and when the residue
shall have reached S40O, 600 it is to be given
to the president and fellows of Harvard
College. The sum of 500. 600 is to be set
apart and known as the Abraham Williams
fund, in memory of the testator's father
and grandfather, the latter being a member
Of the class of 11A.
The Merchants Association gave great
banquet at Boston on the 29th, in which sew
eral prominent statesmen discoursed on
leading national issues.
CHARLES KINGS glove-leather establish
ment, Johnstown, N. Y, burned the other
night Loss, $4,000.
By the annual report of the Boston fire
department, recently issued. it appears that
there are in that city 45, 1S7 dwelling houses,
81 hotels, 1850 stores and 5,O57 other build
ings, valued for taxable purposes at s6S2,
GO6.OOO
The Highland Town and Point Breeze
street railroad, Baltimore, has been pur-
chased by syndicate of Philadelphia, in
Guiding William Wharton, Jr., William r.
Wister, Edward Samuel and Francis Hazel
hurst.
WHILE Nick Reinmeyer and Henry Eager,
laborers employed in J. Painter T. Sons
West Side iron mill, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
were removing ''tap' from one of the
heating fNrnaces, it came IN contact with
a puddle of water. A terrific explosion
followed, blowing both men across the
street Reinmeyer was killed and Eager
fatally burned.
GENERAL w. W. LoRING, pasta, formerly
of the United States army and also of the
Confederate army and later commander of
Loring's corps in the Egyptian army, died
of pneumonia at New York on the 3Oth.
LIABILITIES of the Iron Bridge Pennsyl-
vania) Hatters' Association, which failed
recently, are about $4,000, and assets about
Sa0.OO
Owing to the Norfolk & Western Rail-
road Company having placed contracts for
nearly all of the 1887 output, it is considered
doubtful in Philadelphia that pool will be
formed, that company acting very indie
pendently and raising its demand to fifteen
pes cent. of the output.
The case of the Oregon Transcontinental
Company against Kuhn, Loeb T. Co., in
which the former recovered a verdict of
el12, 600, was settled in New York recently
by the payment Of 100000 by Kuhn, Loeb
& Co.
THE WEST.
THE Supreme Judges of Minnesota have
united in recommending that the present
tax title law of that State should be re-
pealed.
MRS. JOSHUA DEAN was shot through the
heart by her SON in Clinton, Ind, recently
while he was examining new revolver.